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applied indiscriminately to varieties 

 as round as a ball, or as flat as a 

 saucer. This may sometimes arise 

 from the stage of growth selected for 

 allotting their configuration, whereas 

 the true formation of any given flower 

 should be determined only when it is 

 fully open, and its character conse- 

 quently completely developed. When 

 we find such kinds as Madame Knorr, 

 Vainquer de Solferino, Boule d'Or, 

 Chabrilland, Jules Margottin, and 

 others, all described as " cupped," it 

 is manifest how inappropriately and 

 indefinitely terms are too frequently 

 applied. Among the growers' cata- 

 logues, however, must be excepted 

 those of Messrs. Wood, Fraser, and 

 Cranston, in which will be found most 

 praiseworthy attempts at detailed de- 

 scriptions and of individual flowers. 



The leading contours of roses may 

 be comprised under the following 

 heads : Globular, reflexed, expanded, 

 cupped, and half cupped or tazza- 

 shaped ; which forms will result from 

 the centre, the face, the profile, and 

 the size, shape, and depth of petal. 

 1st, The globular. The old roses 

 Duchess of Sutherlandor 

 La Beine may stand for 

 its type, which is almost 

 invariably double, and 

 well formed, the centres 

 being full of small leaf- 

 lets, the exterior petals 

 sometimes folded over 

 at the points with great 

 elegance and regularity, as in Cha- 

 brilland and Senateur Vaisse. A 

 variety of this form sometimes arises 

 from the whole of the petals being 

 incurved, as in the new roses Madame 

 Pierson and Robert Fortune. The 

 petals are large, and profile deep. 

 2nd, The reflexed. Type, Jules 

 Margottin. The cen- 

 tre in this variety is 

 very high, from which 

 the petals turn over, 

 ] increasing in size to 

 the outer row ; they 

 are sometimes imbri- 

 cated, as in Madame 

 Vidot ; profile deep. 

 3rd, The expanded. Baronne Pre- 

 vost may be considered as the repre- 

 sentative of this section, under which 



Fig. 1. 



a great number of sorts might 

 be arranged, and 

 which is in reality 

 merely amodifica- 

 tion of the above, 

 being larger in 

 diameter, flatter 

 at the centre, and with a much shal- 

 lower profile. 



4th, The cupped. Maria Portemer, 

 though smallish, or 

 Vainquer de Solfe- 

 rino, both full flow- 

 ers, will perhaps serve 

 as a type of this style 

 of flower. Here the 

 centre is not always 

 full. The face is flat, 

 and the outer petals 

 large, holding up, as 

 interior ; profile deep. 



5th, The half cupped. LordEaglan 

 or Souvenir de laMalmaison will serve 

 as a type for this class, which is more 

 expanded than the 

 last named, usually 

 fuller in centre and 

 larger in diameter, 

 though it is in these 

 two classes that defi- 

 ciencies in double- 

 ness most frequently 

 occur. This remark, however, does 

 not apply to the Bourbons, which for 

 the most part have excellent centres. 

 The face is flattish, and the profile 

 somewhat shallow. Under this head 

 such flowers as Eveque de Nismes 

 must be reckoned. 



I am disposed to believe that 

 most of our existing favourites might 

 be classified under one or other of 

 the foregoing divisions ; perhaps con- 

 sideration might suggest one or two 

 others. I am not aware of any voy 

 dark varieties that belong to the first, 

 and but few to the second. With 

 depth of colour, size and doubleness 

 seem to decrease ; and it would ap- 

 pear we must wait and long for the 

 colour of Prince Noir, combined with 

 the size and symmetry of Chabrilland. 

 It is worthy of remark, likewise, that 

 (ew of the dark varieties succeed well 

 in the neighbourhood of London. 

 They appear to have a decided an- 

 tipathy to smoke, and to require a 

 favourable rose climate to develop in 



Fig. 5. 



